Science For Tots

Subject: Animal Discovery

Join us for a sensory exploration of animal artifacts! Touch real furs and look closely at animal bones as we work together to follow clues to guess the animal.

Location: IDEXX Classroom / 3rd Floor

Science For Tots

Subject: Journey of Light

Join us for a luminous light journey!

Make shadow puppets to discover how shadows are made, and experiment with flashlights to see how light shapes the colorful world around us.

Location: IDEXX Classroom / 3rd Floor

Science For Tots

Subject: Animals In Winter

Where do some animals go in the winter? They get cozy just like us! Explore the winter natural world by observing our live honeybee hive, listening to a story, and taking on an animal character as we act out hibernation together

Location: IDEXX Classroom / 3rd Floor

Science For Tots

Subject: Honeybee Lifecycle

Join us for an exploratory adventure to learn about the life of honeybees, from egg to honey-making masters.

Make scientific observations and practice matching skills as we explore together.

Location: IDEXX Classroom / 3rd Floor

Let’s gather for a fun and interactive storytime featuring the popular Chris VanDusen book, The Circus Ship. This beloved picture book highlights shipwrecked circus animals living on an island in Maine, with rhyming text and colorful illustrations throughout.

Science For Tots

Subject: Teeth & Bones

Become a tot detective in this toothy program, where we will investigate the Museum & Theatre collection of animal bones!

Explore skulls, teeth, and the adaptations that make other animals similar and different from humans.

Location: IDEXX Classroom / 3rd Floor

This event has been postponed. Please check back soon for a reschedule date.

Science For Tots

Subject: Leaf Rubbing

In honor of the fall season, let’s discover the changing leaves around us and how they live in our world.

Start off by exploring our amazing collection of leaves, and leave with a one-of-a-kind, colorful art project.

Location: IDEXX Classroom / 3rd Floor

Let’s gather for a fun and interactive storytime featuring the popular Chris VanDusen book, The Circus Ship. This beloved picture book highlights shipwrecked circus animals living on an island in Maine, with rhyming text and colorful illustrations throughout.

Wiggling and squiggling red wriggler worms help keep plants growing. Come meet, touch, and study live red wiggler worms and learn how they are good for the planet.

Free with Admission.

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Wiggling and squiggling red wriggler worms help keep plants growing. Come meet, touch, and study live red wiggler worms and learn how they are good for the planet.

Free with Admission.

Click the button to reserve your Museum Visit Tickets

Use your imagination to travel back in time to the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Explore the prehistoric animals that lived on Earth. Return to present day to investigate replica dinosaur fossils.

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Wiggling and squiggling red wriggler worms help keep plants growing. Come meet, touch, and study live red wiggler worms and learn how they are good for the planet.

Free with Admission.

Click the button to reserve your Museum Visit Tickets.

Use your imagination to travel back in time to the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Explore the prehistoric animals that lived on Earth. Return to present day to investigate replica dinosaur fossils.

Click the button to reserve your Museum Visit Tickets.

Wiggling and squiggling red wriggler worms help keep plants growing. Come meet, touch, and study live red wiggler worms and learn how they are good for the planet.

Free with Admission.

Click the button to reserve your Museum Visit Tickets.

Use your imagination to travel back in time to the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Explore the prehistoric animals that lived on Earth. Return to present day to investigate replica dinosaur fossils.

Click the button to reserve your Museum Visit Tickets.

Wiggling and squiggling red wriggler worms help keep plants growing. Come meet, touch, and study live red wiggler worms and learn how they are good for the planet.

Free with Admission.

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Measure and mix a batch of your own thermochromatic playdough that changes color with the heat of your hands. Ticket holders participate in an hour-long drop-off workshop full of experiments with heat and leave with their own fist-sized ball of color-changing playdough.

$40 per child (Museum & Theatre members receive a 10% discount). 

Tickets for play sessions are purchased separately.